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Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
The way Symbian has hung in there over the last 14 months is astonishing considering everything Elop has done to disparage it, even now when it has absolutely no marketing budget and no carrier or retailer support it still outsells NOKIA's WP7 devices which are having an enormous amount of advertising lavished upon them.

Did you notice the market where NOKIA has suffered it's biggest crash is China?

China Mobile (a carrier bigger than all the major carriers in the US COMBINED) had publicly stated their support for MeeGo and were part of the MeeGo working group. China Mobile had publicly committed themselves to offering MeeGo devices to their 650 million subscribers.

When Elop killed MeeGo he effectively gave China Mobile the finger and now he wonders why NOKIA have lost carrier support in China.

Before Elop's crass stupidity NOKIA's smartphone market share in China was around 70%! What is it now?

Yes genius. Its because Chinese are hip and want Silicon Valley products. Who wants Symbian phones. Have you handled N8....oh my what a dinosaur. Dont blame WP for NOKIA losses. Its all Symbian. Symbian should have been gone long time ago.....it was the pre-Elop incompetency that led to this balance sheet.

Meego, is still a beta OS by every yardstick. It cant compete with iphones and droids. Period. If you want to argue otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. So NOKIA made a move they had to make. Perhaps its too late. But dont blame WP. WP gave them cash and a sense of direction. Symbian and Meego burned cash and were destined to perish